Getting Out

White House wants out of Afghanistan, the military doesn't.

Allow me to make a politically incorrect rant: something is wrong with our military if we can't defeat the Taliban and Al Queda. I'm sorry - we're spending about a billion times as much money as they are - we should be able to win decisively. This would be like the Miami Heat losing to a division 3 school in a playoff series. Everyone talks about how impossible it is to defeat the Taliban and Al Queda or how the politicians don't support the troops enough, or they don't have enough soldiers, etc. Bullshit. If the Taliban and Al Queda are so tough, how come they can barely hold onto a slab of shitty land? None of them have defeated a single army in the world and have no decisive victories. The Taliban, at best, beat back several other tribal factions in Afghanistan to win temporarily part of the country. We've spent an ungodly amount of time and money and lives over there and our Generals haven't figured out how to bring home a decisive victory nor have brought us Mullah Omar and Zahwari's heads? Something is wrong with this scenario. Lincoln fired who knows how many Generals in order to get Grant and Sherman to finally beat the South. It strikes me we are being awfully easy on the military.